[zelphirkalt]

SCORM is so limiting, one probably wont be making any modern interactive online courses with that. Focusing on that standard will most likely render a project useless or so boring, that no one will learn anything from using the system. If anyone is making another LMS and hears some distant call for SCORM from anyone not directly involved in making content or learning from the content they should run. It is likely to be just a silly checkbox some management wants to tick off, because at some point they heard about a term and now think it is relevant.

[DavidPeiffer]

>It is likely to be just a silly checkbox some management wants to tick off, because at some point they heard about a term and now think it is relevant.

Is it one of those checkboxes that would be required or heavily weighted while doing an evaluation/bidding process?

When I was in college, a lab needed to replace some equipment and had to go through the bidding process. They had to develop objective criteria that the bids would be judged against with a scoring system and requirements.

It took some real effort to write the criteria such that they would not end up with a really awful system from a vendor who was known to have awful support, but not write it in an exclusionary fashion.

[zelphirkalt]

It is a standard that works for classical "here you got some text to read" and "here is a quiz" kind of online courses. If you want anything more like say interactive programming exercises, forget SCORM.

> Is it one of those checkboxes that would be required or heavily weighted while doing an evaluation/bidding process?

It might be, yes. But only heavily weighted by those entities, who peddle such very basic learning material and don't have interactive components, except for maybe some very basic quiz. When you develop a new LMS and try to make a business out of it, you will probably sooner or later get in contact with such entities, who would like to push their content into your newly developed platform and have some SCORM artifact. So they ask you whether your platform is SCORM compatible.

But anyway, mostly it will not be worth it, if you want modern courses with nice interactive features. SCORM will only slow you down.